Next year, I am team-teaching a course on language and power in the
United States.  In it, we have (recklessly) promised, among other
things, to look at how language is a force in both personal and social
relations in American society; how, through language, the powerful have
defined and controlled the powerless and the powerless have resisted the
powerful; how it can open doors and close them; and how it is at the
heart of burning issues of propaganda and censorship and of relations
among race, class, and gender.

I'd appreciate suggestions of books or articles (a) for me to read and
(b) to assign the students, who will be in their first and second year
of college and have no background in language study.

Thanks.

Michael Kischner
Humanities Division
North Seattle Community College
9600 College Way North
Seattle, WA 98103

(206) 543-2609
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